Outside Chang'an City, near Nan Daying.
After half a year of rectification, Ouyang Zhi's blacksmith shop has expanded day by day.
There are many apprentices and old blacksmiths.
This blacksmith shop can reach its current scale thanks to Huo Guang's help. Just as he said, he would build a blacksmith shop for Ouyang Zhi in the name of the imperial court.
Um!
It was really just a hang-up, and the imperial court did not spend a single penny of money or manpower.
All came from Huo Guang.
Therefore, this blacksmith shop is actually Huo Guang's private property.
Just now.
Huo Guang couldn't stand it when he saw Ouyang Zhi always obeying the instructions of the old blacksmiths, so he stepped forward and pulled him over and said, "Ouyang Zhi, come here."
Ouyang Zhi thought something was wrong, so he followed him and asked, "What orders does Marquis Bolu have?"
Since he was able to work openly and openly again, the blacksmith Ouyang Zhi had special respect for Huo Guang.
no way.
When Ouyang Zhi was born, he continued his father's profession and became a blacksmith.
When I was a child, I watched my father forge.
I tried blacksmithing by myself when I was young, and when I was middle-aged, I started blacksmithing alone.
Now that I am half old, the court will no longer blacksmith for private individuals. In his life, he only knows how to make iron. If he can't make iron in the future, he doesn't know what the meaning of his life is.
Fortunately it is.
I met Marquis Bolu, and now I have a blacksmith shop with the name of the imperial court, and I can do what I know how to do again.
Huo Guang looked at Ouyang Zhi, who respected him, frowned and asked, "Ouyang Zhi, last month, did I tell you that this blacksmith shop will be in your hands from now on."
After hearing Huo Guang's words,
Ouyang Zhi nodded immediately and said, "Yes."
Huo Guang continued to ask: "Then what are you doing? I asked you to manage the blacksmith shop. What do you think? Why do you do whatever other old blacksmiths ask you to do? Why is that young apprentice standing there with his legs crossed? What are you doing?"
Ouyang Zhi then said: "That young apprentice is the grandson of Blacksmith Zheng. He is not required to work alone, and Blacksmith Zheng used to be a very famous blacksmith!"
After hearing Ouyang Zhi's defense, Huo Guang said frankly: "I don't care what he is, I opened this blacksmith shop because you can make gun barrels!"
"They take the high wages I offer and have to do the work they should do in the blacksmith shop!"
"I want to expand this shop because I hope the monthly production volume of matchlock barrels can be increased."
"You know what I'm trying to say, right?"
"I don't want you to see something like this next time I come here. I hope you can be the manager of this shop!"
Hear Huo Guang's words.
Ouyang Zhi, a middle-aged man, could only nod.
immediately.
Huo Guang patted Ouyang Zhi on the shoulder and said, "Actually, I shouldn't have said these words to you. You are older than me, and there are some things that you should understand."
"There is no free lunch in this world."
"Okay, I'm going back first. It's up to you to decide what to do next."
Finished.
Huo Guang left.
During this year, Ouyang Zhi had informed these blacksmiths about the method of making iron pipes. The other blacksmiths also know how to produce, and the quality is not inferior to Ouyang Zhi.
Because most of the people recruited are experienced old blacksmiths who have the skills at hand.
So this shop wouldn't be able to operate without Ouyang Zhi.
But the method of making the barrel was figured out by Ouyang Zhi after three years of thinking.
so.
Huo Guang hoped that the blacksmith shop would be managed by Ouyang Zhi, as he did not want to end up hiding the blacksmith shop.
But if Ouyang Zhi really can't manage the shop.
We still need to find someone who can manage it and take over the blacksmith shop.
After leaving the blacksmith shop, Huo Guang first went around the South Camp to see if Zhao Daniu was causing trouble in the military camp.
This guy has performed well in the past year. He is now a commander and has ten soldiers under his command.
See this.
Huo Guang left the military camp without saying anything to him.
Get on the carriage and go all the way back to Huo Mansion in Chang'an to see Shan'er. The little guy is two years old and has already learned to walk, but he often stumbles.
So the slaves in the house did nothing all day long, just following the little guy.
Seeing this, Huo Guang picked up Huo Shan and said, "Hey, Shan'er is so powerful. He can even run! But why can't he speak? Can you please listen to me, Father Zhong?"
"Yeah!"
Little Huo Shan seemed very happy, humming something in his mouth.
Huo Guang couldn't understand either.
I guess this is what I’m shouting about!
While he was teasing the little guy, Bu San, the owner of the restaurant, hurried to the house, found Huo Guang and said, "Master, Master, something bad is going to happen!"
Little Huo Shan seems to be a little afraid of strangers.
Seeing Busan come over.
I was so frightened that I burst into tears.
Huo Guang had no choice but to coax him up, then glared at Bu San and said, "Why are you so flustered?"
Fu San quickly leaned close to Huo Guang's ear and spoke a few words in detail.
After hearing this, Huo Guang's expression immediately changed and he said, "What? The Wei couple just finished the crowning ceremony two days ago, and they started acting like monsters!"
Huo Guang's crowning ceremony was held when he was fifteen years old.
The crowning ceremony for Mr. and Mrs. Wei was not held until the age of sixteen.
That's what happened a few days ago.
The general said that after Mr. and Mrs. Wei performed the crowning ceremony, they would be adults, so Mr. and Mrs. Wei would no longer care about him in anything he did in the future.
then.
The Wei and his wife grew up from a chubby boy to a big chubby boy, and their behavior became more and more rebellious.
But this kind of rebellion is not the kind of shouting rebellion when I was a child, but silently doing some bad things.
If only it was a normal bastard thing.
But what he did has endangered the Wei and Huo families!
This made Huo Guang very angry.
Get up.
He handed Huo Shan to his sister-in-law, and then went to the restaurant with Bu San.
The music here is still the music here four years ago.
Most people, it seems, are still the same people they appear to be.
only.
Time is passing, and some things are gradually decaying with the erosion of time.
Huo Guang, led by Bu San, came to the vault of Le Restaurant here.
This is where the money earned by Huo Guang and Wei Wei was stored after they opened the restaurant.
But as I made more and more money, I soon couldn't hold it anymore.
So a place was made to store the copper coins, and this became a place to store precious items.
For example, horseshoe gold or some valuable jade.
There are two keys to this vault.
One belongs to Huo Guang, and the other belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Wei. After all, the restaurant was opened by him and Mr. and Mrs. Wei when they were young.
As the restaurant's affairs were fully managed by Bu San, the key to him had been given to Bu San, the restaurant manager, a few years ago.
Huo Guang pointed to the treasury and then said, "Open it and take a look."
"Okay, sir, look at it, don't be surprised later." Fu San said, took out the key, unlocked the vault, and then opened the door of the small vault.
What catches the eye.
It’s the horseshoe gold accumulated over the years.
The purity of gold from the Han Dynasty is hard to say, but it is indeed real gold.
Later, there were some relatively good jade items, as well as some antiques left over from the Yin Shang, Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.
Modern people play with antiques.
For example, things from the Han Dynasty are considered antiques in modern times.
Same reason.
Things from the Yin and Shang Dynasties were considered antiques to the Han people in the Han Dynasty.
The Qin Dynasty was very close to the Han Dynasty, and the Qin Dynasty was very short-lived, so there is nothing in the treasury that particularly highlights the Qin Dynasty.
As for the Xia Dynasty.
Huo Guang did not collect any special objects.
For one thing, the Xia Dynasty was too far away even for the Han Dynasty.
Secondly.
To be honest, the land area of a country like the Xia Dynasty, which is regarded as the beginning of the Central Plains dynasty, is very small.
To put it bluntly.
It is actually a country composed of several tribes. How big can it be?
Including the later unified Qin Dynasty, the land area was actually not large. The land of the Six Kingdoms is just the Central Plains. How big can it be?
The large-scale expansion of the land area of the Central Plains Dynasty actually only started in the hands of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Regardless of merit.
Just talk about the land area of the dynasty.
The end point of Qin Shihuang was actually just the starting point of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty.
This is not to belittle Qin Shihuang, but the reason why latecomers prevail. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty would still grow larger and larger.
Of course, I'm talking about dynasty here.
Small countries do not count.
Huo Guang looked at the densely packed precious items in the small vault and said, "I didn't expect that there are so many precious things here. It's not a good thing."
"Forget it, let's deal with it later."
"Busan, where are the things that Mr. and Mrs. Wei put here?"
Hear the words.
Bu Sancai said to Huo Guang: "Sir, it's in that box, but I don't have the key to the box."
"Key?" Huo Guang raised his eyebrows, and finally changed his mind and asked, "Bu San, are you sure that the thing that Mr. Wei spent money to trade with others is something that can't be seen?"
Hear the words.
Fusan nodded solemnly.
Huo Guang then pulled out his saber and slashed it down.
Officials of the Han Dynasty basically liked to carry swords when traveling to show their martial spirit.
There are also a few people who like to travel with swords.
knife.
Naturally, it’s Huanshou Dao.
But these people are basically people in the army, like Huo Guang.
The back of the Huanshou sword was thick and the blade was sharp. Huo Guang slashed it with all his strength. Sparks flew everywhere and the lock was hit hard.
The quality of this lock is okay.
But the quality of the box is average.
The lock was knocked off, but it was okay.
Without saying a word, Huo Guang stepped forward to open the wooden box, and he found those shady things as Bu San had said - the Nine-Aperture Jade Plug!
These are all very precious jade articles from the Han Dynasty.
only.
It is not something for living people!
Huo Guang didn't even understand what Mr. Wei was doing collecting these things. Didn't he feel unlucky?
"Go and call the Yichun Houwei and his wife." Huo Guang said to Bu San with a solemn expression. Just as Bu San responded and was about to call someone, Huo Guang continued: "Also inform the general and ask my uncle to come. "
"Yes, sir."
After hearing the sound, Bu San followed Huo Guang's instructions.
Mr. and Mrs. Wei's temper right now is so bad!
Huo Guang, a man of his own age, could not control Wei and his wife. After all, both of them are marquises. It is true that he is the Marquis of Bolu, but he is also the genuine Marquis of Yichun.
So this matter.
He can only leave it to his uncle Wei Qing to take care of it.
Even though Mr. and Mrs. Wei have already performed the crowning ceremony, Wei Qing, as his father, can still teach him a lesson.
Even killing Mr. and Mrs. Wei with one sword is not an exaggeration.
The murder of a father by his son was not a matter of course in the Han Dynasty. But the father of the Han Dynasty had this right.
this matter.
You can refer to Jin Rixi in the future.
Since the general had something to do, after Bu San went to inform him, the Yichun Houwei and his wife, who usually had nothing to do, came over first.
"Hey, cousin, aren't you usually busy everywhere? Why did you touch my things today?" Mr. Wei was talking when he suddenly discovered that next to Huo Guang was the small wooden box he had placed in the vault.
seem.
He also knew that these things were not easy for others to see.
so.
very nervous.
Huo Guang smiled coldly and said, "Huh, touching your things? If I don't touch your things now, someone will touch your head in a few days."
However.
The threat to Huo Guang.
Mr. and Mrs. Wei turned a deaf ear and even retorted: "What are you talking about? I am the son of the general and the Marquis of Yichun personally named by His Majesty. Who dares to touch my head!"
Finished.
He glared at Huo Guang, and then angrily closed the wooden box.
actually.
In the past two years, Huo Guang's relationship with Wei and his wife has not been good.
I was busy working for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, so I had no time to pay attention to this unfortunate thing. After the death of their biological mother, Mr. and Mrs. Wei stopped taking the initiative to interact with Huo Guang.
in.
When the relationship is at its worst.
Nothing could be better than when Wei Qing took Princess Pingyang.
Huo Guang was still living in the general's residence at that time, so he naturally called Princess Pingyang his aunt. At that time, the Wei couple seldom spoke to Huo Guang.
The emergence of contradictions is inevitable.
"No one dares to touch your head? Huh, Mr. Wei, if you weren't my cousin, I would have chopped off your head with a knife." Huo Guang glared at Mr. Wei fiercely.
Subsequently.
He then pointed at the wooden box that Mr. Wei was about to take away, and said, "Hurry up and tell me, who did you trade these things with? Don't let anything happen and you will be accused of not saving me."
Mr. and Mrs. Wei were not afraid of Huo Guang and said directly: "I bought it with some knight-errant brothers. If anything happens, get out of the way and don't cause trouble for me."
For Huo Guang's kindness.
Mr. and Mrs. Wei don't appreciate it, and their temperament is no longer what it was when they were children.
See each other and want to leave.
Huo Guang immediately stopped worrying about the other person's face and took action directly. Not only did he grab the wooden box he wanted to take away, but he also grabbed it.
"You idiot, how dare you take these shady things out in broad daylight?"
"Just stay still!"
Finished.
Huo Guang tied him up with a rope.
Subsequently.
He did nothing and just stayed here until General Wei Qing arrived.
Wei Qing didn't realize what was going on at this time, but when he came in, he found that his grown-up son was tied up here by his unrelated nephew Huo Guang.
"Huo Guang, are you and Mr. Wei having any conflict?"
See this.
Huo Guang immediately moved the wooden box and explained in front of General Wei Qing: "Uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Wei said that these are all things he bought from others with money!"
Wei Qing heard this.
He immediately glanced into the wooden box.
Good guy.
You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it. Here are all things used by dead people.
Immediately.
General Wei Qing scolded the Wei couple: "You idiots, why did you buy these things? My father is not dead yet!"
The son buys valuable things for the dead, and they are more personal. Generally speaking, they are reserved for his father.
The Nine-Aperture Jade Plug is specially designed to plug all the holes in the upper and lower parts of the human body.
It is normal for the general to mistakenly think that Mrs. Wei bought it for him.
But Huo Guang reminded: "Uncle, are you thinking a little bit wrong? Why don't you think carefully about the reason why I show you this thing?"
"Is it possible?"
"Have you not heard recently about the theft of coins from Emperor Wen's Mausoleum in Chang'an City, which has caused a lot of commotion these days?" (End of Chapter)
